2024-05-21 · tonnes e-waste generated (2022)
Most e-waste is not recycled
Phones and laptops pile up. Formal recycling captures a fraction — the rest is stored, dumped, or burned.
Planetary boundaries love waffle charts — one cell is a fixed sip of the whole resource. This grid divides annual e-waste (2024 snapshot) into colored bands — Documented recycling and Landfill, hoarded, informal — using equal squares so you compare shares, not country size on a map.
1 cell = 62 thousand tonnes e-waste generated (2022) (0.1% of annual e-waste) · 1,000 cells
Context
The 2024 figures from UN e-waste monitor put Landfill, hoarded, informal at 86.2% of annual e-waste and Documented recycling at 13.8% — about 62 million tonnes e-waste generated (2022) in this edition's rounding.
UN Global E-waste Monitor 2024: ~22% collection/recycling rate.
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